Is PERIPHRASTIC a word?
PERIPHRASTIC is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words With Friends, has 12 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, PERIPHRASTIC is a valid word.
What does periphrastic mean?
adjective: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
“had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
PERIPHRASTIC: word details
- Length: 12 letters, a long word. It is one of 20,405 12-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 21 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 23 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside periphrastic
Words you can make from the letters of periphrastic.
Solve a whole rack, not just PERIPHRASTIC
PERIPHRASTIC is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does PERIPHRASTIC mean?
PERIPHRASTIC is a adjective. It means: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
Is PERIPHRASTIC a valid word?
Yes, PERIPHRASTIC is a valid word. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.